The following is a list of recurring games, sketches, and other comedy routines from the NBC late night talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and its. The 1. 98. 4 Olympics Were Bad For Poor Black People In Los Angeles. Now that Los Angeles has won the bid to host the 2. Olympics, it seems as good a time as any to look back at what happened to the city when it last hosted the events. The 1. 98. 4 Games were successful in L. A., in that they were profitable for the host city and didnt leave behind a bunch of decaying stadiums eventually overtaken by weeds and wildlife like some scene out of The World Without Us. While Los Angeles didnt get bankrupt itself hosting the 1. Olympics, that doesnt mean the citys citizens werent harmed by it. The Los Angeles Police Department used the Olympics as a justification for ramping up police harassment of young black and brown Angelenos under the guise of providing security for the Olympics. Max Felker Kantor, writing in the Washington Post yesterday, pointed out how the 1. Get the latest breaking news across the U. S. on ABCNews. com. Olympics led to an increased militarization of the police. As the 1. 98. 4 Olympics neared, officials were concerned how the citys problems with drug addiction, gang crime, and homelessness would appear to the foreign delegations and the media. So, they cracked down on African American and Latino youth. Using federal funds, the LAPD stocked up on weapons, including machine guns. They, in conjunction with the FBI and the Los Angeles Sheriff Department, conducted large, indiscriminate sweeps of gang members, drug addicts, and homeless people to clean up the area near the Coliseum. The aggressive policing did not end once the Games were over and the foreign delegations went home. Once law enforcement was given more power to ruthlessly target poor people of color in L. A., they didnt exactly it hand it back These resources and tactics didnt disappear when the athletes left town. They would continue to be used for aggressive policing and punitive policies in the citys most vulnerable communities in the years that followed. Y2FxBphJI-U/Tc_A6VVcnSI/AAAAAAAALqo/lNJ5lHQoQ-A/s1600/Battle+Los+Angeles.png' alt='Battle Los Angeles Games Cracker' title='Battle Los Angeles Games Cracker' />On Feb. LAPD SWAT team used a military grade V 1. Olympics and equipped with a 1. The officers found two women and three children eating ice cream, no guns, a small amount of marijuana and no cocaine. Three years later, the LAPD engaged in massive anti gang sweeps known as Operation Hammer, which led to the arrest of 2. African American youths, often without cause, and involved detaining them for 2. Coliseum. By the early 1. A study by the Los Angeles County Adult Detention Center found that nearly a third of black men ages 2. Install Ssl Certificate Suse Linux Certification. Some observers have even linked the bubbling discontent over this discriminatory criminal justice system, which spilled over in the 1. Los Angeles rebellion, to the 1. Sy6XluA/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Battle Los Angeles Games Cracker' title='Battle Los Angeles Games Cracker' />Games. Weve got 1. Olympics will fuck over the most marginalized citizens of L. A. Washington Post.